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First frost of the fall. Nice fire going, cup of tea and watching Open de Espana golf.

I ***** hate the Rangers and all the national ballwashing of Mike Sullivan, Adam Fox and their decrepit forward corps. Id like to see the Sabres start off by giving them a good curb-stomping that launches New York on an an inexorable march to a bottom 5 finish that ends with Drury looking for a new job. Let's go Buffalo.

I have no idea how this team will come out tonight. Lyon should be an improvement on last year’s UPL. Another year for Ruff to get through to them but this coaching staff does not impress me. Cornerstones like Tage, Dahlin, and Tuch need to demand more and set a higher standard. The defense without Kesserling looks like last year. They need a fast start.

Beautiful thread title. As Doc E. would say, What Chaos!

Well, if you want to get technical, Sabre goalies combined for 153 NHL starts last year. 😜 Don't imagine many teams have more.

Zuckerberg would claim infringement. MySabres is available though. (Maybe that's what we get when the 'hood shrinks some more. 😉 )

Hope springs eternal and Lyon did have that one magical run while Bobrovsky was out, but he's had opportunities to seize the starters job in the past and has never been able to take the reins. Expect a more realistic hope is that he can be "the guy" for the month of October and then either UPL finally gets out of his own head or one of the little AHLers get an opportunity and seize the day. Either way, go Sabres.

A reference to a long since dead social media site? I guess they can go with sabrebook instead.

I remember the snow, Dave Steib starting, and I believe it was delayed a day because of weather. CNE stadium!

Sabrespace was already taken. 😜 You guys know we're utterly predictable and the biggest bunch of curmudgeons in the Sabrehood, right?

An oncoming car this morning swerved into my lane to go around a lawnmower that was 10 feet off the side of the road. What would you consider to be the more imminent threat, the oncoming car or the mower not even remotely close to the road?

Happy for the Jays.

Heard that's what they wanted to call it, but apparently Adams thought it was referring to him specifically and nixed the idea. 😉

Lyon starting the season as the opening goalie is a marvelous opportunity for him. If he plays well for a team that desperately needs to have a good start, it wouldn't be a surprise (at least for me) that he becomes the #1 goalie. UPL has been plagued with injuries and inconsistencies. The opportunities have been there for him to seize. He just has not been able to be dependable for a variety of reasons. Just maybe, being seriously being pushed by UPL might be the best thing for him. The Sabres are far from being a well-rounded team. But if he can get consistent solid goalie, we should be able to be in the playoff mix for the whole season. I'm predicting a Sabre win tonight. Why? Hometown bias.

Hockey fans are not from a “hood”. It sounds fake.

Since we’re running with stupid stuff, play on history and call it sabredom.

You can release players. The mutual agreement is how you get that contract off of the books. With a release, it still counts.

Sabre Nation seemed to have a better (though clearly not creative) ring to it. But guess with the dwindling of the fanbase we're down to just a single neighborhood left. Would the 2nd last one out please show me where the switch is to turn off the lights.

The whole practice of giving a fanbase a name has always felt so dumb to me. That’s probably at least partly due to the fact that every single one was “nation” for a while.

It essentially is. It was spawned from their in-game PSA announcement with Rob Ray donning a Fred Rogers-esque sweater and talking about how to behave in the rink. For the B&G games, it's just Ray by himself in Mr. Rayzor's Sabrehood but for B&R games, Marty joins him as an unruly fan. Slightly cute the 1st 20 or so times they showed but, but it's now been going on for 2 or 3 years and it's starting to get a bit long in the Sabretooth.

I watch MLB playoff and World Series. Always.

The Bills Mafia is so lame.

I will not buy any Bills gear with the Mafia reference. I will not buy any Sabres gear with the word "hood" in it. I don't live there.

It sounds like some Mr. Rogers *****